Good Afternoon,
As a result of our shortened schedule this and next week the B list CCar libraries will be serviced on their normal schedules starting with Tuesdays schedule on May 26. I have instructed our drivers to use their judgement with overloads if any. With some luck we should be back to Normal before the end of the week.
Thank you
Walt

Attn: Libraries using reQuest ILL

Due to a change in software systems, UCONN-Storrs, reQuest ID UCW, will not be processing any new ILL lending requests effective immediately. They will resume lending through reQuest in early July.

Note: They will be accepting ILL lending returns throughout this period, so please continue returning UCW material as usual.

Judy Delottie, DD/ILL Lending Services Coordinator at UCONN, tells me that she will be happy to accept fax/e-mail/mail lending requests. Judy’s contact information is:

Judy DeLottie
DD/ILL Lending Services Coordinator
Homer Babbidge Library
University of Connecticut
369 Fairfield Way
Storrs, CT, USA 06269

860-486-1985 – phone
860-486-3593 – fax

judy.delottie@uconn.edu

(Thank you Judy!)

Regards,
Steve

CLC Interlibrary Loan Roundtable- Combined
Middletown Library Service Center

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

9:30 – Registration & networking
10:00 to Noon –Meeting

Interlibrary Loan Roundtable – EAST & WEST

East co-chairs: Kim Farrington (Elihu Burritt Library, CCSU), Gail Avino (Hall Memorial Library, Ellington)

West co-chairs: Mark Gore (Housatonic Community College), Cathy Steele (Wilton Public Library)

Agenda

Welcome and introductions

Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative – Anne Beaubien (Chair ALA Rethinking Resource Sharing Initiative) http://www.rethinkingresourcesharing.org/

Report from the State Library – Sharon Brettschneider
Budget news
Statewide ILS status
Discussion of possible ILL studies
CCar volume study – Fall 2009
CCar Online School
Blogs for Book groups

Join CLC Google Groups for the ILL Roundtables at: http://www.ctlibrarians.org/events/roundtables.html

CT ILL NEWS Blog: http://ctillnews.wordpress.com

Monthly ILL Reports: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=NwnYvX_2fdHTFlymqI1Z3pTw_3d_3d

Good Morning,
The following CCar “B” libraries will not be receiving service today. They will all receive service on their next scheduled day for service.

B144, B155, B94, B139, B179, B115, B69, B128, AND B199.

Thank You
Walt

Our wonderful Friends of the Library held a librarian and volunteer appreciation get together this evening. It was a really nice affair. One of the friends members told me this story.

She thanked me for purchasing the book The wishing year : a house, a man, my soul : a memoir of fulfilled desire / Noelle Oxenhandler.  She had originally seen it at the Uconn Co-op and thought it would be something she would like to read. She was very surprised to see it sitting on our shelves on her next visit to the library. She loved it so much that she talked it up to several friends. One checked her local library, found out that they didn’t own it and put in an ILL request for it. The book arrived and she phoned her friend, all excited. The book had come from Columbia! She thought it was the coolest thing that she was reading the very book that her friend had read.

I love stories like this. It makes me proud to do ILL as part of my job.

“The Boards of Directors of NELINET and Lyrasis approved a resolution to recommend that NELINET join Lyrasis.”

More info at: http://www3.nelinet.net/lyrasis

For the purposes of resource sharing, note the following from the FAQ at: http://www3.nelinet.net/merger-FAQ

M7. Will this impact resource sharing agreements?
No. Joining Lyrasis does not impact any existing sharing agreements. Many Lyrasis libraries participate in reciprocal borrowing agreements within their local region. NELINET already supports such similar reciprocal borrowing agreements. Any decision to expand such agreements will have to be made by the group in question.

One advantage in being the person responsible for processing Interlibrary Loan requests for our library is that I get a heads up on what’s hot. Recently I’ve had lots of requests from area libraries to borrow Still Alice by Lisa Genova. Word of mouth selling has done its job and its on everyone’s must read list. If you want to know what it’s about I wrote about it on our Saxton Reads! blog on February 15th (http://www.engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=9336&BlogID=183).

Another recent phenomenon and one that had us a bit perplexed, is a slew of requests for a book, A Lion Called Christian, first published in 1971. One request didn’t seem odd. After all, I had recently read another oldie The Goose from Scarsdale, 1974 and after talking about it, it realized a new life. Then the second, the third, the fourth requests came pouring in. The staff scratched their heads; none of us knew why the book was suddenly so popular. However, we are librarians so we immediately did some research and this is what we found. Seems there’s a clip on Youtube showing a heart endearing reunion of Christian, the Lion and the two men, Ace Bourke and John Rendall, who raised him from a cub.

Christian’s Story as told on the Born Free Foundation Webpage

“In 1969 a young Australian, John Rendall and his friend Ace Bourke, bought a small lion cub from Harrods pet department, which was then legal. ‘Christian’ was kept in the basement of a furniture shop on the Kings Road in Chelsea, the heart of the swinging sixties. Loved by all, the affectionate cub ate in a local restaurant, played in a nearby graveyard, but was growing fast…

A chance encounter with Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna led to a new life for Christian. He came to live in an enclosure and slept in a caravan at their Surrey home. Then in 1971 he was flown to Kenya, his ancestral home, and returned to the wild by lion-man George Adamson. Almost a year later in 1972, John and Ace returned to Kora in Kenya and it is their reunion with Christian at this time that is shown in the clip.

It was an emotional reunion: “He ran towards us, threw himself onto us, knocked us over and hugged us, with his paws on our shoulders.” ”

The Youtube reunion clip has made Christian quite the celebrity. The book “A Lion Called Christian” has been fully revised and updated, telling Christian’s remarkable story in words as well as stunning photographs. There have been stories in the New York Times, People Weekly Magazine, USA Today, and all the major news networks.

Our 1971 version has made its way back home and is currently in my TBR pile. The revised edition should be on our shelves soon. Reserve either copy by visiting our online catalog.

A lion called Christian [by] Anthony Bourke and John Rendall. c.1971

Lion Called Christian: The True Story of the Remarkable Bond Between Two Friends and a Lion – Anthony Burke and John Randall c.2009

If neither are available you can always read The Goose from Scarsdale / by Clive Howard

If the links don’t work visit our blog at http://www.engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=9336&BlogID=181

From Walt at C-Car
Good Morning,
This is just a reminder that Connecticar will not be operating this Friday 4/10/09 the Good Friday Holiday. Connecticar will resume it’s operation on Monday 04/13/09 on the regular Monday schedules.
Thank You
Walt

From Sharon a the State Library: Iwas asked to send out another name confusion reminder. Glastonbury has been getting items intended for Newington but sent to the wrong Welles library.
Please be careful when you are sending items to:

Welles-Turner Memorial Library, Glastonbury A – 63 and the Lucy Robbins Welles Library, Newington A – 133

And as long as we are on the topic, remember to be careful about:

Edith Wheeler Memorial Library, Monroe A – 111 Wheeler Library, North Stonington B – 139

along with

Kent Library Association, Kent B – 88
Kent Memorial Library, Suffield A – 183

and don’t forget these:

Stafford Library Association, Stafford A -176 vs.
Stratford Library Association, Stratford A – 182

and the Bills

Bill Memorial Library, Groton B – 70
vs.
Bill Library, Ledyard, B – 94

From Sharon at the State Library:
Apologies for the delayed notice but the following libraries didn’t receive delivery yesterday because of a vehicle breakdown. They will get delivery today.

Monroe, Naugatuck, Ansonia, Trumbull, Oxford, Prospect and Derby.